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• Competing for the Future

  Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad

  
  Winning in business today is not about being number one--it's about who "gets to the future first", write management consultants Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad. In Competing for the Future, they urge companies to create their own futures, envision new markets and reinvent themselves.

  Hamel and Prahalad caution that complacent managers who get too comfortable in doing things the way they have always done will see their companies fall behind. For instance, the authors consider the battle between IBM and Apple in the 1970s. Entrenched as the leading mainframe-computer maker, IBM failed to see the potential market for personal computers. That left the door wide open for Apple, which envisioned a computer for every man, woman and child. The authors write, "At worst, laggards follow the path of greatest familiarity. Challengers, on the other hand, follow the path of greatest opportunity, wherever it leads". They argue that business leaders need to be more than "maintenance engineers", worrying only about budget cutting, streamlining, re-engineering, and other old tactics. Definitely not for dilettantes, Competing for the Future is for managers who are serious about getting their companies in front. --Dan Ring, Amazon.com

  
   

• The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth

  John Roberts

  
  
   

• Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know

  Thomas H Davenport, Laurence Prusak

  
  When new-car developers at Ford Motor Company wanted to learn why the original Taurus design team was so successful, no-one could tell them. No-one remembered or had recorded what made that effort so special; the knowledge gained in the Taurus project was lost forever. Indeed, the most valuable asset in any company is probably also its most elusive and difficult to manage: knowledge. Authors Thomas H Davenport and Laurence Prusak assert that learning how to identify, manage and foster knowledge is vital for companies who hope to compete in today's fast-moving global economy.

  Working Knowledge examines how knowledge can be nurtured in organisations. Building trust throughout a company is the key to creating a knowledge-orientated corporate culture, a positive environment in which employees are encouraged to make decisions that are efficient, productive and innovative. The book includes numerous examples of successful knowledge projects at companies such as British Petroleum, 3M, Mobil Oil and Hewlett-Packard. Concise and clearly written, Working Knowledge is an excellent resource for managers who want to better harness the experience and wisdom within their organisations. --Jake Bond

  
   

• Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

  Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D Anthony, Erik A Roth

  
  
   

• Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

  Iain Carson, Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

  
  
   

• Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  
  
   

• The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)

  John Roberts

  
  
   

• A Simpler Way

  Wheatley

  
  
   

• Managing Change and Transition (Harvard Business Essentials)

  Harvard Business Essentials

  
  
   

• The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market

  Michael Treacy, Fred Wiersema

  
  
   

• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

  Michael E. Porter

  
  
   

• HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ON BREAKTHROUGH THINKING ("Harvard Business Review" Paperback)

  Harvard Business Review

  
  
   

• Toxic Emotions at Work and What You Can Do About Them

  Peter J. Frost

  
  
   

• Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest: Choosing Service Over Self Interest

  Block

  
  
   

• Dirty Tricks: British Airways' Secret War Against Virgin Atlantic

  Martyn Gregory

  
  
   

• The Competitive Advantage

  Michael E. Porter

  
  
   

• The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created

  William Bernstein

  
  
   

• Business in the Asia Pacific: Text and Cases

  Sonia El-Kahal

  
  
   

• International Logistics

  Wood

  
  
   

• Knockoff - The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods: The True Story of the World's Fastest Growing Crimewave

  Tim Phillips